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even the necessity for supervision. And when 

 we think that these workmen never loaf, never 

 ask for a vacation, and never go on strike, it 

 would seem that there should be, among all 

 intelligent people, the keenest competition for 

 their services. In later chapters I shall show 

 some of the ways in which these workmen may 

 be induced to spend at least a part of the year in 

 our fields and orchards and gardens, where they 

 will surely lay the foundations of a permanent 

 friendship which shall be at once a source of 

 pleasure and profit to us and of protection to 

 themselves. 



